No Cape Required sets out a vision for a new approach to leadership and emphasizes the need to develop both the individual and the organizational environment within which people are expected to lead and succeed. This book illumines the path toward taking charge of leadership development and influencing the organization to be well prepared for the abundant leadership revolution. Readers will learn how costly the dominant hero-leader paradigm is and why it’s vital, in today’s “VUCA World” of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity, to develop a new and more relevant approach to leadership and leadership development. This book offers managers insight into the behaviors and skills needed to deliver, along with the engaging styles available to build more successful teams and experience better relationships with colleagues. This book addresses equality through its message of abundant leadership; not emphasizing one group over another, but pointing out the need to unlock the talents and potential of everyone in the organization.

"Award-winning leadership and communication expert David Grossman has helped scores of leaders become great communicators who drive their businesses forward in impressive ways. In No Cape Needed, Grossman brings that insight to all leaders and demonstrates how communication can be a sort of 'superpower' in today's highly competitive business envionment. Through his simple, Do/Don't format, you'll see how better communication skills clearly translate to better leadership, allowing you to quickly transform your company, not to mention your relationships and your life. The book also features leadership advice from senior leaders inside leading organizations, including: Aston Marton; The Boeing Company; Coach; Compassion International; Hill-Rom; Motel 6; Nationwide and Starbucks, to name a few"--Back cover.

Do you know someone who seems to have superhuman powers? The kind of person who accomplishes so much in a day, it seems like they must have a time machine? The kind of person who is annoyingly successful at whatever they do? What if those people were not born with special powers--what if they just practice a set of philosophies and strategies available to anyone? -- Are you seeking to make a greater contribution at work?-- Do you desire deeper relationships with friends, family, or your spouse?-- Does fear hold you back from exploring a new path in life?Cape Not Required is a roadmap of personal practices and strategies to help anyone access their full range of possibilities.

“Readers…will be enamored by this blend of history, mystery, and superpowered action.” —Booklist (starred review) “Has the exciting pace of a superhero adventure.” —Kirkus Reviews Hidden Figures meets Wonder Woman in this action-packed, comic-inspired adventure about a brilliant girl puzzler who discovers she’s part of a superhero team—the first in a new series! Josie O’Malley does a lot to help out Mam after her father goes off to fight the Nazis, but she wishes she could do more—like all those caped heroes who now seem to have disappeared. If Josie can’t fly and control weather like her idol, Zenobia, maybe she can put her math smarts to use cracking puzzles for the government. After an official tosses out her puzzler test because she’s a girl, it soon becomes clear that an even more top-secret agency has its eye on Josie, along with two other applicants: Akiko and Mae. The trio bonds over their shared love of female superhero celebrities, from Hauntima to Zenobia to Hopscotch. But during one extraordinary afternoon, they find themselves transformed into the newest (and youngest!) superheroes in town. As the girls’ abilities slowly begin to emerge, they learn that their skills will be crucial in thwarting a shapeshifting henchman of Hitler, and, just maybe, in solving an even larger mystery about the superheroes who’ve recently gone missing. Inspired by remarkable real-life women from World War II—the human computers and earliest programmers called “the ENIAC Six”—this pulse-pounding adventure features bold action and brave thinking, with forty-eight pages of comic book style graphic panels throughout the book. Readers will want to don their own capes for an adventure, and realize they have the power to be a superhero, too!

For more than three decades, award-winning leadership and communication expert David Grossman has helped scores of leaders become great leader communicators who drive impressive results for their organizations. Naturally, the global pandemic and mounting racial unrest of 2020 handed leaders one of their biggest challenges yet, with a level of social and economic tumult not seen in more than a century.Despite the upheaval, many leaders rose to the occasion, and often by drawing not just from experience and wise counsel, but from being human as they led - what Grossman calls Heart First leadership. In Heart First, Grossman explores the many aspects of being more authentic in leadership and how that can profoundly inspire a team and move them to achieve remarkable things, especially in times of change or crisis.Heart First also features interviews with CEOs and guest columns from senior leaders inside a variety of organizations, each of whom share extraordinarily candid insights and unique lessons learned from a year that changed everything.

Cape Town is one of the most beautiful cities in the world - often described as a kind of heaven on earth. Yet for the majority of its inhabitants it is hell. Apartheid-spawned ghettoes are everywhere, and for those living in Manenberg - a coloured township on the Cape Flats, purpose-built by the apartheid government as part of its forced removal plan - life is just as marginal today as it was during apartheid. The main differences now are the rampant drug use and widespread gang presence. No Neutral Ground is a gripping account of Pete Portal's move from London to Manenberg, of addicts and gangsters meeting Jesus and being transformed, and how he went from living with a heroin addict to establishing a church community - and all the heartbreak and failure along the way. This is a story of mighty works of God, as well as relapse, hopelessness and despair; the miraculous and the mundane, heaven and hell, all balanced on a knife edge. Offering searing insight and an inspiring vision of faith, Pete asks why anyone would choose this way of life, if giving up our lives for others is worth it - and what the church could become if we were willing to risk it all to reach the forgotten and the lost.

Of course, you'd like a golden lasso or a magic bracelet, but guess what? You don't need 'em. You already have superpowers, and they're just waiting to be activated! Are you ready to be successful, personally and professionally? Are you ready to conquer fears and overcome challenges? Are you ready to lead and mentor with strength and smarts? Yes. You. Are. Learn from real-life Wonder Women in this book while you laugh, cry, reflect, journal, and doodle your way to living your fullest life. No cape required. AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY: Kelly Radi is a real-life Wonder Woman! She's a sought-after speaker, award-winning author, and CEO of Radi to Write, LLC. Authentic, inspiring, and relatable, Kelly equips and empowers her audiences to find--and use--their unique inner superpowers to live Wonder-Full lives. A member of the National Speakers Association, Kelly earned the 2018 NSA Minnesota Academy Award. Kelly lives in Minnesota with her husband, Marty, and they thoroughly enjoy their empty nest. She likes reading, red wine, Southern rock, things that sparkle, and watching their daughters learn to ''adult.'' And yes, she has a thing for Wonder Woman. Learn more about Kelly at raditowrite.com. AUTHOR HOME: Sartell, Minnesota

Now a USA TODAY BEST-SELLER, The Sound of Wings is a masterfully crafted tale of love, friendship, betrayal, and the risks we take in the pursuit of justice. Seventy-year-old Goldie Sparrows faces declining finances, questionable health, and a late husband who torments her from the beyond. She seeks refuge in her butterfly garden, which is filled with voices and memories from long ago. Jocelyn Anderson is a struggling writer who finds escape from her custody battle in the journal of her late mother-in-law. As she gets pulled through the pages of time, Jocelyn discovers her own husband has a hidden history she knows nothing about. Is this secret now Jocelyn’s to keep? Krystal Axelrod is living a life she never dreamed she could have. And yet the demons of a dysfunctional childhood and mean girl culture from her cheerleading days cast their shadow over her ability to feel whole, capable, and worthy. Does Goldie hold the key to Krystal’s path to freedom?

Comprehensive handbook for leaders, for grief-stricken parents, and for anyone who struggles with the stigma of mental health. You will receive insight and guidance to help you understand and embrace the limitations of your leadership.